Connecticut western news., 1887-07-20
THE SPORTING WORLD.
TURF AND TRACK, YACHTING
 AND BASE BALL GOSSIP.
The Current Chat about Pedestrians,
 Pugilists, Etc.

1EAGUE.--lncluulnS tne games piayeu Juiy 15 the Detroits have won Al lost 19; Chicago won 36 lost 22; Boston has won 36, lost 25; New York has won 34, lost 30; Philadelphia has won 30, lost 32; Pittshurg has won 23 lost 8; Wash ington has won 9, lost 34, and Indianapolis won 1S lost 43. AssocIATIoN.--St. Louis has won 5O' lost 19: Baltimore has won Al and lost 23: Cincinnati has won 43, lost 29; Louisville has won 3S, lost 8; Brooklyn has won 31, lost 32; Athletic has won 31, lost 37, Metropol- itans have won IS, lost 47, and Cleveland has won l6, lost 49.
 Aside from Von Haltren's great power as a pitcher he gives promise of developing into one of the heaviest batters in the League His hits are as peculiar as his delivery as pitcher. He strikes the ball as easily and as squarely as though it was suspended in tne ar, and when hit it invariably falls in spot where neither the short stop, the third baseman nor the left fielder can get under it. Van Haltrens pat ting is wholly scientific. He does not saw the air as though he were trying to hro Kroch n,,n ine stroke, and the ball drops in an empty pasture. As a base runner Van Haltren IS equal to Sun day. and as & fielder he ranks with the best ln the League.
 Linden Tree. the Arabian stallion pre- scented to General Grant by the Sultan o1 lur- key, will no5 be sold by the Generals family, but is to be placed in stud II satisfactory ar- engagements can be made.
 Since Louisville's big fielder, Pete Brown ing, has left the black bottle alone, he has been playing game that will no doubt surpass all his previous efforts. His batting IS heavy, ms He at present leads the Association batters, and he has stolen more bafes than Latham, Of the Browns.
 Patsy Farrel, the Scrapper, who knocked out Dominick McCaffrey and IS now matched to box Charley Mitchell four rounds, is work, ing up bis muscle at the Edgar Thompson Steel Works
 John M. Ward, the captain of the New York team, will contribute article to the next number of LippincoNs Magazine, dls' cussing the question:-'Is the Baseball Player Chattel?" from the standpoint of law, equity and reason, and attacking the present system of selling players from one club to another, which is in vogue both in the American Asso- ciation and National League.
 Captain A. H. Bogardus the champion wing shot, writes that, although he IS fifty four years of age, he is ready to shoot any man in the world for $1 ,00a to $5,OOO & side, one hundred pigeons, Birmingham rules, the match to be shot within three months.
 Indianapolis has signed new pitcher: His name is Fast. He is q school teacher Of Milwaukee, Wis, who used to play ball as diversion occasionally whenever the local club was particularly anxious to win game. It, IS said his club did not lose single game when he pitched, and Catcher Hackett, of Indianap- oils, who had Fast out for little while the other day, says that he has all the curves and tricks of a veteran.
 At Leicester, England, Howell, the Eng fish bicycle champion, and Temple, of Phila- delphia, were entered to contest three races at quarter of g mile, half mile and mile The quarter-mie race was won by Howell by half a yard. He also won the half-mile race by five yards. Temple declined to contest the mile race.
 In the athletic sports at Norwich, Eng. Ralph Temple, the American. reduced the quarter mile bicycle grass record to 3o 2-5 seconds.
 The Fairmount Boat Club of Philadelphia is not considered ''toney" enough for the Schuylkil Navy and it was not invited to par ticpate in the race for the Sharpless cup, though it had once won it and held 1t for year. It lost the trophy to the Malta Club, which is the crack sseight" of the navy and is the present holder of the cup, having won it again on the Fourth of July. The Maltas and the Fairmounts arc the only entries for the eight-oared shell race ill the regatta of the Ma tional Association which is to be held on Lake Chartauqua on tho 26th and 27th insts:, and all Quakerdom is agog with excitement, as they Ego in for blood there and this contest revives the old dispute, "Can cad beat 8 gen ] tleman?"
 The gallant white sloop Mayflower is l cheered by the passengers of every steamboat that goes past. The most arduous duty of her new crew is answering salutes. The great yacht never looked trimmer or heater than at present in New York; bay.
 Said well-knoYn sporting man yesterday: If was satisfied that Johnny Teemer was in proper fix, and would row for all there is in him, I wouldn't hesitate to bet every dollar have that he can lcat Beach, Gaudaur, Han Ian or any ether sculler in the world. As it is, | though have no confidence Ill him, and l | would h rlly let nickel on him against plug" Teemcr has no one to blame for this lack of confidence but himself. | A J. Alexander, of the Woodburn Stock 1 Farm, las sold to J. D. Cushman, of Mason l County, Lexington, ky, Pilot Russell, 2-year old stallion, and full brother to the celebrated Maud S., for good price.
 The yacht Thistle will make the voyage across the Atlantic under one lower-mast and reefed trysail about the size of a60-ton yachts mainsail. It is intended to make practice l cruises ill American waters before the races for ! the Americas Cup. l "A neavy cloud passed over Opelik, Ala. It was followed by brilliant electrical dis play. John Bankheads wife and three chil- dreu, who were standing on the veranda of their home five miles from the city watching | the clouds, were struck by lightning, two chill dren being killed and the others fatally in jured.
 A criminally careless farmer near Logans- port, Ind, shot his wife in the darkness of their bedroom.
 A drunken peddler at St. Henry's, Ohio, killed one man and fatally wounded another while running sTruck.
 
 farmers of Clark County, Ind, over the wan- ton killing of Samuel Hay by Jacob Robinson. | It was rumored that mob would take Robin son from the Jacksonville Jail and hang him. To prevent this the authorities placed him in the penitentiarr, where he will doubtless be safe.
 Orders have been received at San Francis co showing that the Pacific squadron of the United States men of war have been ordered to rendezvous at Honolulu. These include the Alert, four guns, now at Callao, Perui Junlata' eight guns, at Panama, and flagship Vandalia, eight guns, which has already sailed from Peru The Asatic squadron, consisting of six men-of-war, will be ordered to Honolulu If found necessary.
 Two men who went to settle an old gruGge with farmer near Leitchfield Ky, were both killed in the attempt.
 Tho color line is agitating the Grand Army of the Republic ill Louisiana and the Episco- Church in South Carolina
 In the Wilson wife murder trial at Albion N Y., Dr. Moen, of Rochester, testified that Mrs. Wilson died of suffocation.
 A disastrous flood occurred at Thomp- sons Falls, Idaho, caused by the breaking Of q big dam on Blossom Lake. Many wagons and teams are reported swept away, bridges destroyed, etc., and it is feared that num- Der of lives were lost It is reported that the mining towns of Mountain City and York were nearly destroyed. Mail and telegraph communication is cut off. It is feared num- Der of freight teams on the road have been lost. The disaster is very serious to mining property.
 Arthur Stone alias Arthur Saunders, died from the effects of a gunshot wound inflicted by Sergeant Davis, of the 2Sd United States Infantry, at Fort Wayne, Mich. Saunders was the sOn of wealthy parents of Joliet, Ill. He enlisted in the 23d Infantry. Recently he accused sergeant of stealing cane. There upon he was tried for ssconduct derogatory to fr years imprisonment. He mado break for liberty and was shot. The private soldiers are much excited over the affair. T Queen Kapiolani, after two days rest in New York, proceeded to San Francisco, on her way to Hawaii.
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